Noticing Sentences

*****I am avoiding spoilers for this particular book, but if you want to avoid spoilers for the SERIES, I suggest you do not read this post. LOL Her mother had said she needed to find her bliss. Who'd have thought it would be on an island in the middle of nowhere? p90  (irony) Perhaps it was his choice of famous residence that had brought him to Goddard's attention. Grouseland was, after all, the first brick home in the Indiana Territory. Damn. p200 Nietzsche, aside from having a name that was painfully difficult to spell... p200 (I feel like this is Shusterman putting his own little aside in here-- about having to type that name over and over.) "Maybe because I want you to use your hands for something more than pleasuring yourself." p362 Shade "With all due respect, it sounds like the world has been duped by a very charismatic and self-serving monster." p100 Because, after all, a thousand people gleaned in a mass even was such a small drop i...

World-building Because Shusterman is the master at world building! Now the venerable structure was a historical site. Tours were given seven days a week by docents with PhDs in the study of mortal humans. p19 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman Passion of performance was a thing of the mortal past, and true artistic style had gone the way of the dodo. Of course, the dodo was back-- the Thunderhead had seen to that. A thriving colony was now happily not flying on the island of Mauritius. p32 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman His parents were "serial parents." They loved the idea of having families, but loathed raising them. Greyson and his sisters were his father's fifth family, and his mother's third. They had tired of this new batch of offspring quickly, and when they began to shirk their parental responsibilities, the Thunderhead took up the slack. p66 Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman "I'm going to learn how to drive, no matter how may times it kills me....